FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION (FMSF)
Nonprofit organization was created in 1992.
Co-Founders #1 and #2: Pamela and Peter Freyd, after their adult daughter Professor Jennifer Freyd accused Peter Freyd of sexual abuse when she was a child.
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Co-Founder #3: Psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Underwager, supported pedophelia.
"It is "God’s Will" that adults engage in sex with children.
. . . Background and full Interview here: http://davidshurter.com/?page_id=2894
"The CIA, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation & the Politics of Ritual Abuse"
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_tavistock04a.htm
Original FMSF Board Members:
Dr. Martin Orn (psychiatrist): Senior CIA Mind Control Researcher: Experimenting in hypnotic programming, dissolving memory and other mind subduing techniques.
Dr Harold Lief (psychiatrist): CIA Mind Control Researcher. Experimenting in behavioural modification and hypnotic programming.
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ansipizza ago
I have personal experience with both real memories of trauma and false memories of trauma. It can be difficult to tell the difference and both absolutely happen. The research into false memories done by Elizabeth Loftus is solid. It sounds like the so called researchers cited by the OP just have an agenda and aren't interested in truth.
3141592653 ago
The research by Elizabeth Loftus is shady a.f. She did a small study on a tiny number of children, and that is the ONLY research the False Memory Foundation ever uses. Over and over, people will cite this OnE poorly conducted study by E. Loftus to say abuse memories are false. So many children have been hurt by this. I've often wondered about Loftus' motives.
ansipizza ago
It sounds like the shady FMF has taken a tiny portion of Lotus's work and misrepresented it for their own purposes. For one thing, most of Loftus's work that I'm aware of was done with adults.
3141592653 ago
I've only ever heard of her small study about supposedly giving kids false memories of being left in a grocery store alone
ansipizza ago
Hmm you and if I might be demonstrating the frailty of memory right now. My (possibly flawed) memory of her "lost in the mall" experiment was that she would try to convince an adult, who claimed to have no memory of such an incident, to later believe that he or she does remember being lost in the mall as a child. Family members were in on it and would feed the subject false details at the first meeting. A few months later the subject is asked again, and some percentage did adopt the narrative as their own.
3141592653 ago
Yes, but it was a tiny study on a small number of kids and not only is the science not valid and translatable to true trauma, but this tiny random study is being used for decades to discredit victims of one of the most massive horrors going on in this world. Her tiny, not truly applicable, decades-old study is the pedo's dream ammunition to discredit survivors. You gotta check out that book I mentioned. It's not valid to discredit victims on the based on this. Yes, memory can be fallible, but that is another whole long post, and there is specific research on trauma survivors and memory, and this lost in a grocery store shit is not applicable. Basically, that would be saying that getting lost in a supermarket as a kid is equally traumatic to forced child sex slavery. Severe trauma is stored in the brain differently than other memories are. And repeated, chronic trauma has a whole other effect on brain structure and brain development-- Not like what a kid would go through after not being able to find their mom in the supermarket for ten minutes. Thanks for reading
ansipizza ago
Of course you are right. Trauma is stored differently from ordinary memories, and a study exploring the nature of one didn't tell us much about the nature of the other.
3141592653 ago
How/why do you know so much about Loftus?
ansipizza ago
Just some personal bouts with both real and false memories of traumatic events.
3141592653 ago
Why do you think you had false memories?
ansipizza ago
(Incidentally, I know it's not rational but I like your username.)
Any detail should probably be saved for private messages rather than on the forum. Very basically, I recovered some real memories (which I have been able to substantiate to my satisfaction). Then I fell under the influence of someone who tried to steer continued recovery in a particular direction. The other person's agenda got in the way of real progress, leading to what I believe to be false memories. All this pizzagate stuff has given me new perspective and information, to the point where I now hope to be able to dig a little more, without fear or bias, and just see what else is there, if anything. For example, I saved some songs I wrote when I was a small child which have eerily pizzagate-sounding lyrics when I consider them today.